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    "id": 1029791,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029791/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": " She has taken my minute. What I was trying to get to is that this process needs to be simpler than it is. Registration of births is being done by a department that is completely different from the one that requires birth certificates. I think there needs to be an order and some communication. When the Ministry of Education insists on using birth certificates for purposes of exams and everything else, yet it is not the one that issues birth certificates, they do not know the difficulties people go through to get them. There must be communication between the department that requests for birth certificates and the one that issues birth certificates. At the moment, there is disconnect. The Ministry of Education insists on acquisition of birth certificate for purposes of exams and registering students, but it is not their mandate to issue birth certificates. So, certificates are issued by a completely different department from the one that requires them and there is no communication between the two. I do not understand why the Government wants to let citizens suffer for things like these. I am trying to say that now that they have failed in digitising these processes, let them remain manual, and as they do so, let them handle them the way they are handling deaths. Birth certificates are a confirmation that you were born on a certain date. Why should there be a big problem? As we move forward, I want to believe that there are some things that are going to be sorted out by the Huduma Namba, but it is also getting complex. We are being warned that there is another process that is meant to start second generation of Huduma Namba. I do not understand why the Government insists on making the citizens of this country suffer for no apparent reason."
}